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How long does a solar permit take in Austin?

In Austin, the typical solar permit took 7 days from application to issue, across 1,408 permits issued from September 2024 to September 2026. After the permit, the typical finished solar installation took 85 days from permit to final inspection (2,329 finished of 2,717 permits issued from September 2022 to September 2024; 14% had no final inspection on record by September 2026).

7 daysfrom application to permitMiddle half: 4 days to 14 days
85 daysfrom permit to final inspectionMiddle half: 42 days to 5 months

The two steps

How long solar installations take in Austin, in daysApplication to permit issued: median 7 days, middle half 4 to 14 days, 1,408 permits; Permit issued to final inspection: median 85 days, middle half 42 to 155 days, 2,329 permits.Application to permit issued: 7 daysPermit issued to final inspection: 85 days02 mo4 mo
Bars show the median; the line through each bar spans the middle half of jobs. The second step starts where the typical permit wait ends. The two steps come from different groups of permits, so they are not added up.
The numbers behind the chart
StepMedianMiddle halfPermitsPermits issued
Application to permit issued7 days4 days to 14 days1,408September 2024 to September 2026
Permit to final inspection85 days42 days to about 5 months2,329September 2022 to September 2024

Solar installers with the most jobs in Austin

RankContractorJobsContact
1Horus Partners
717
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2Tesla Energy Operations, Inc.
548
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3Power Home Remodeling
389
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Permit wait by year issued

Year issuedJobsMedianMiddle half
202246010 days5 days to 26 days
20231,39110 days5 days to 23 days
20241,05512 days6 days to 27 days
20258416 days3 days to 13 days
20263786 days3 days to 15 days

Why it takes this long

  • 2% of permits were issued the day they were applied for, and 87% within 30 days (1,408 permits).
  • The longer step is building and inspection: 7 days for the permit against 85 days from permit to final, at the median.
  • 53% of finished jobs passed final inspection within 90 days of the permit.
  • Of the 2,717 permits issued from September 2022 to September 2024, 388 (14%) had no final inspection on record by September 2026. They may still be under way, dropped or never inspected; the records do not say which. They are left out of the build time; any of them that finishes will have taken more than two years, so counting them would make the typical time longer.

Days are counted between the dates on each city permit: applieddate, issue_date, completed_date. Median and middle half: half of the jobs took longer than the median; the middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile. A figure is shown only when it rests on 30 or more permits. Kinds of work are sorted by the same rules as our contractor lists. Source: Austin Issued Construction Permits (data.austintexas.gov 3syk-w9eu), read 2026-09-24. The same figures as data: solar.json.